Redirect problem on IIS

Webnauts · #1 (**permalink**) 10-02-2008, 06:42 PM

Hello everybody,

Since I do not have experience with IIS 6 and ASP, I have a question.

I have a customer for SEO viralart.com and he is confronted with a canonicalization issue causing duplicated content.

When you type in the browser

Code:

http://www.viralart.com

you get

Code:

http://www.viralart.com

and hen you type in the browser

Code:

http://www.viralart.com/default.htm

you get

Code:

http://www.viralart.com/default.htm

which are both the homepage.

He wants to have a redirect of

Code:

http://www.viralart.com/default.htm

to

Code:

http://www.viralart.com/

Can you give me a hand. I would warmly appreciate that.

Thanks in advance,

John

Katt · #2 (**permalink**) 10-03-2008, 07:30 PM

I'm on IIS 5 but hopefully 6 isn't much different (because I'm upgrading soon!) and here's how I would do it:

Open IIS, go to the viralart.com website, locate the page default.htm and right click it and select Properties. Under the File tab, click "a redirection to a url" then type in "http://www.viralart.com/", click "The exact url entered above" and also click "A permanent redirect for this resource" (this is a 301 redirect, which you need to keep the page rank, etc)

If this is very different in IIS 6, I'm sorry, and I'd love for someone to post directions for IIS so I can refer to them in my upcoming upgrade.

Webnauts · #3 (**permalink**) 10-04-2008, 10:47 PM

Thanks for the tip. We'll try that out!

Peter · #4 (**permalink**) 10-06-2008, 05:45 AM

Those instructions appear to work in IIS 6 as well, at least they do on my intranet server.